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I wanted to be a T.V. news anchor. Really, I did. I had prepared so well for it too. At my high school I was the host of the daily morning announcements, and I was valedictorian at my university as a Communications major. I had a plan since the day I was born.
So why am I here? Why have I bee...

Every day I wake up in the morning, wishing I could languish in my bed for the rest of the day. As I get up I feel like I’m leaving a comfortable, safe island and swimming out into the vast and unforgiving ocean. I slip into my generic teenage clothes, carefully calculated to emulate the models ...

For all I know
Life is nothing but
A series of catastrophes yet to be experienced
And a series of hopeful utterances
Yet to escape the lips
Of many
Transforming into fruitless air.
Sure,
Life might mean something to you,
But in the town where they have to drive
Miles away to elude the ligh...

She always worked diligently at her theater (it may belong to Ms. Fairchild-Newman, but in her heart she knew it was hers). Everyday she appeared and accomplished whatever task they sent her to do. She liked Saturdays best of all, because she was allowed to stay there for twelve straight hours. T...

I woke up that morning hating my best friend, David.
This is something that I had been feeling for a couple of weeks. It started at the beginning of the summer. David liked a girl named Bridget who was notorious for dating and breaking up with boyfriend after boyfriend. I should have known this ...

I know it's very "teenage girl" to write about body issues. That last sentence alone is grounds for you to roll your eyes and put this back, but I'm being serious here. Body issues were a huge problem for me in middle school. I know, right? Middle school. But, there you go. I have one exceptionally ...

In the past 24 hours I think I've developed a case of night terrors.
I honestly don't think they are night terrors per se, but that's the closest description I can come up with.
Last night I would be lying around doing some sedentary activity, like reading or waiting to fall asleep. All of a s...

To understand this article, you should probably know that I like to write. A lot.
This past summer I went to Europe, and I was always writing. On planes, on the bullet trains, on the bus, in the middle of the street, in the hotel rooms, in the museums, I was always the one writing in my journal o...

I've often wondered what my life would be like today if I hadn't showed up an hour early that day, two years ago. If I hadn't casually misread that letter from our band director and arrived on time. Would I be the same person I am today? Honestly, I doubt it.
I had been stressing out about hig...

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